Best Simpsons episode ever

Gummi de Milo is a classic too, though!

Favorite musical moment: perhaps "When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer."

does anyone else think the orchestral version of 'insane in the brain' is so much better than the regular one? i guess marge and i have similar taste.

Favorite musical moments: The Canyonero jingle, and "Who Needs the Quik-E-Mart?"

'okay, you know the planet of the apes?'

'the movie or the planet?'

the brand new broadway musical starring you as...get this, the human!'

'it's the part i was born to play, baby!'

Best musical moment is in I think "Bart After Dark", where the curfew is put in and Ralph Wiggum interrupts the Adults/Kids song with "I just ate a thumbtack". Priceless.

Perhaps a better question would be - which is the worst Simpson's episode. The one where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies is pretty excrutiating. Infact nearly any episode where Lisa sings.

"Homer, use the forks!"

another great one: Lisa's Braces episode - "Lisa needs braces; dental plan!; Lisa needs braces; dental plan!" and "These pre-date stainless steel, so you can't get 'em wet!"

Hans Moleman is my God. (Runner up: John Frink.)

One of my favorites that I don't think was mentioned is the Halloween Special V(?). Its the one where Homer buys the matter transporter from Dr. Frink. Is that also the same one where Homer goes back in time?

Anyway, my favorite quote:

Dr. Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them. Apu: Could it be used for dating?

Dr. Frink: Well, technically, yes, but the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest.

Btw I really like Futurama. Lots'o people don't.

I still do like Zap Branigan and Kif.

Barney's winning entry for the Springfield Film Festival is the great art-movie ever made: "Don't cry for me _ I'm already dead."

*Sigh*

Futurama has it's moments, too. Certainly Bender the booze-swilling, pornography-consuming, cigar-smoking robot who dreams of destroying the human race is a wonderful, heart-warming creation.

-The Run Lola Run spoof was great, just for the parts where Lisa was running

-"Each leap brings us closer to God! Catch me Lord, Catch me!" "Tramampoline! Trombopoline!"

Rodney Dangerfield is easily the best guest voice the show has had besides Johnny Cash. The Mel Gibson episode also had it's moments Remember the moonshine part: "I know the guy on the right is Mel but who are the other two guys???"

"We salute oh half inflated dark lord!"

"You have what I like to call 'Homer syndrome'" "Ohhh" "No, that's good. See you have a 1/4 inch of liquid surrounding your skull. It's like you're wearing a helmet all the time." "Whoo Hooo"

Fav. musical moment is also 'Flaming Moe'

BRING BACK THE STUPID HOMER!!!

I believe *you* believe that.

"You've stood in my way long enough - I'm going to clown college! Wow, I didn't think anyone thought he was going to say that..."

The weirdest one is probably the Grimey episode which still freaks me out.

As for the most personally affecting - I've always loved the one where Ralph falls in love with Lisa, just because it's like poking an old wound with a sharp stick. Runner-up, for the same reason, is the one where Milhouse's parents divorce. Can you lend me a feeling?

Homer's enemy (the frank grimes episode) Marge vs. the monorail Two bad neighbors (the george bush ep) Tree house of horror VII, I know that special episodes don't count but I can't resist the cheap gags and one liners, "I bet you've never seen you're own face in a mirror.", follwed by a punch. And "Bob dole doesn't need this." (a personal fave) Finally all of season four, pure gold.

"Who Shot Mr. Burns" parts 1 and 2 Homers flashback about birth of Maggie Bart kills bird, eggs turn out to be lizards World's Biggest Cubic Zirconium Camp Krusty The real Seymore Skinner

And who know Kelsey Grammer had such a great voice for that?

You gotta love it, unless yr name is Matt Groening!

and:
"Knife goes in!/Guts come out!/That's what the Osaka Fish Concern is all about! - Oooaarrrggghhhh"

"an even ZANIER scheme!"

The one where Bart adopts a new father is also neat.

Homerphobia: for the steel factory.

Homer gains 60 lbs to get on disability. That's probably my #2.

My #1 has GOT to be the one where Homer stays home from church. Someone mentioned the moon waffles upthread.

in fact he gets her booked on yaa-hoo!, an amazing parody of hee-haw. took me three times watching the episode to appreciate this joke: "yaa-hoo, starring in alphabetical order, yodeling zeke"

;-)

sean
groovesmag.com

also, the early Marge vs Itchy & Scratchy ep was grebt since it was the first time a younger me had ever heard the opening phrase of Beethoven's 6th, which has since become my _other_ fave classical piece.

it certainly is, i just think i saw that particular episode too much and got a bit sick of it - so many classic bits all the same tho...

the one where Bart meets Jessica...

the one where Marge has a gambling problem (oh my god, the REAL best episode ever)

but this tossing out of episodes at random just highlights the futility of this thread ever further

http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/musica/news/diversos/barry_white.jpg

(even though my favourite episode is probably the one with Lisa and the fortune-teller, or when Homer sues the Church and gets, er, the church - "awww, he thinks he's papal!" - best in-joke EVAH!)

shit, you beat me to it.

anyhoo, rest in peace, Lover of the Lady Snake.

Scorpio: "Which do you prefer Homer, Italy or France?"

Homer: "Italy"

Scorpio: [laughs wryly and activates doomseday device] No one EVER picks France.

also the Loch Ness Monster episode:

Professor Frink: [reading data from his Monster Detector]OHMYGOD! An enormous amphibious lifeform is coming right at us... it's.. it's.. it's on my shoe!

[looks down, and see's frog on his shoe]

Wait a minute.. this isn't the Monster Detector.. it's the Frog Exaggarator."

fucking cracks me up

This is so totally NOT the best Simpsons episode ever

sorry, thought this was the "least episode ever" thread.

"now play classical gas!"

hank scorpio (would you like some cream with that? uh...no thanks.)

The lord of the flies spoof. Ralph W. eats "oozing" berries and exclaims "tastes like burning" while clutching his stomach.

One of the worst episodes was when we find out that principal skinner is not the reall principle skinner. Who came up with that idea?

old nedward.

i like the way they ahndled that at the end of teh episode though: "let us never speak of this again".

Or the gay steel mill one?

(Last few in this season were pretty bad)

"Let the bears pay the bear tax, I pay the Homer tax"

"thats the homeowener's tax"

xpost (thanks JMC)

Similarly, "The Principal and the Pauper" aka the "real" Skinner is kclassikc. While its ironized self-parodying may have been a jumping off point for sharks, it's hard to overlook the fact that this particular episode is FUNNY.

I also can't believe no one answered my Larry White question!

xpost - the factory bits are charming JUNIOR vice president ken, but the a-story is SO HORRENDOUSLY MALIGNANTLY WRETCHED that it washes away any affection to be had for the whole episode.

Oh, and Tito Puente. And when Homer plays 'Birth of the Cool' to get Lisa's attention. And the "It's Raining Men" incident.

---------------

The two klowns moan at the thought, but they try it, Krusty riding, Homer perched on top. In his fear and in his attempt to hold tight, Homer covers Krusty's eyes with his hands. Krusty admonishes him, but they miss the loop entirely and ride up a pool cue right onto the pool table. They ride straight into the racked-up Boston balls -- and sink every one of them. The Italians are visibly impressed.

The two klowns jump across a gap onto the bar; Homer's head plays "The Godfather" theme music on the wine glasses that dangle from the roof. "Ah!" gasp the Italians. Krusty sees that the part of the bar that lifts up so the bartender can get out is raised. Thinking quickly, he knocks it closed with seltzer. The Italians even applaud.

Vittorio: [moans] Ah, but without the loop it is nothing," [cocking his gun again]

Krusty and Homer fly off the bar, straight towards the loop, and whizz around and around it many times. They fly off together and skillfully land in the "Ta da!" pose; the miniature bike flies towards them, and Krusty, although he opens his mouth to catch it, is beaten to the punch by Homer, who swallows it and makes the bell ring by opening his mouth.

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I laughed so hard at that, i thought i´d die. I can wach this over and over and over.

Best Maggie Episode: "Rosebud" (Burns' bear)
Best Lisa Episode: "Lisa's Substitute" (Lisa's crush on teacher)
Best Marge Episode: "Brush With Greatness" (Marge paints Burns)
Best Bart Episode: "Radio Bart" (Pretends to be trapped in a well)
Best Homer Episode: [tie] "Last Temptation Of Homer" (Attracted to sexy co-worker); "Homer Bad Man" (Accused of Sexual harrassment)

"have no fears, we've got stories for years......sorry for the clipshow"

best below the radar characters are Lindsay Nagle and Cookie Kwan.

Lisa: How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?

Homer: SEVEN!

Lisa: Dad, it's a rhetorical question.

Homer: Rhetorically....EIGHT!

Lisa: Do you even know what rhetorical means?

Homer: DO I KNOW WHAT RHETORICAL MEANS?!

The ending also invariably makes me cry like an injured child.

yeah, that's one of the few "simpsons with heart" episode that actually works. i'm also glad they didn't bring homer's mom back after that episode (or did they? please don't tell me they did), it makes it all the more powerful.

music-related simpsons? the gay steel mill in "homerphobia" - "we work hard, we play hard!" (cue c+c music factory)

I noticed this on seemingly every FOX show last night. "Family Guy" got a little weird with it. The Apu gag coming across the border along with Dr. Hibbert rapping "Baby Got Back" ... the whole night together was a bit uncomfortable.

And "King of the Hill" enforcing the "cats-like-to-shit-in-boots" myth along with a rah-rah Blue Angel flyover with Bill on an aircraft carrier didn't help matters any either.

Signed,
Pleasant Plains, who watched the whole damn thing.

-- weasel diesel (kilian.murphy2...), June 4th, 2004.

otm

You Only Move Twice
Homer, when you go home tonight there's going another roof on your house.

Blame it on Lisa
Man, our money is really gay.

i have just failed at my life.

(not in quotes to note english spelling, but to question his purported funniness)

Meanwhile, Matt Groening is threatening to make Gervais a regular character and says he should even have his own cartoon show. All together now: nooooooooooooooooooo

(btw shouldn't this be over on ILE somewhere?)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/

also in that episode, the bee keepers
"its quiet....yes a little TOO quiet..."
"how do you mean?"
"well, lots of bees usualy means lots of nooise.....NO NOISE!! means no bees"
"i see...there goes one now"
"TO THE BEE MOBILE!"
"you mean your chevvy?"
"yes...."

classic simpsons

"i'm calling about operation MUAVEN HAUIVEN!!!"
marge-"professr frink?"
"how did you know it was me? was it the muaven or the hauiven or was it just the hole MUHAVEN thing that i do?"

oh wait...

The audience is such a source of joy in this scene:

In the Springfield Elementary Auditorium, Ned Flanders stands at a
podium with Skinner and Edna on either side of him.

     Ned: Well, all right, I'd like to call this meeting of the PTA to

          or-diddely-order.  Let's see if we can't put an end to this

          strike fuss, huh?  Mrs. Krabappel, why don't you begin?

 Skinner: Boo!

    Edna: Oh, "boo" yourself.  Our demands are simple: a small cost-of-

          living increase and some better equipment and supplies for

          your children.

Audience: Yeah!  Give it to them! etc.

 Skinner: Yeah, in a dream world.  We have a very tight budget; to do

          what she's asking, we'd have to raise taxes.

Audience: Raise taxes?  They're too high as they are.  Taxes are bad.

          etc.

    Edna: It's your children's future.

Audience: That's right.  Children are important. etc.

 Skinner: It'll cost you.

Audience: No to taxes.  My God, they're going to raise taxes. etc.

    Edna: C'mon!

Audience: She makes a good case.  Good point. etc.

 Skinner: [rubs his fingertips together]

Audience: More taxes?  The finger thing means the taxes. etc.

     Ned: Well, I guess this is a case where we'll have to agree to

          disagree.

 Skinner: I don't agree to that.

    Edna: Neither do I!

The Simpsons Movie has its moments...

If by "Had its moments" you mean "Was fucking hilarious and had at least a laugh per minute" then, yeah, I agree.

Best episode is probably when Homer goes to Clown College

I stand by my top three: Frank Grimes, Hank Scorpio, and fat/disabled Homer.

The movie's great, btw.

hank scorpio is great. but being a fan of frank grimes is like saying that the best moment of JFK's presidency was getting shot in the head.

tonight's rerun... "HAW HAW THEY'RE IN A CORN MAZE LET'S PLAY A KORN SONG... ALSO STEPHEN HAWKING, GET HIM IN THERE SOMEHOW." that'd probably be more appropriate for a worst simpsons episode ever thread though.

The Frank Grimes episode is a masterpiece.

My top three are: The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (esp. "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour"), the garbage episode wth U2, and Armin Tanzarian (the most moving moment in television history is when the lie makes Armand and Agnes happier than the truth ever could have).

But Frank Grimes would probably be number four. The hatred for this episode astonishes me. Not since Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story (which give or take Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man is the greatest comedy of the classical Hollywood era) did we get such a deep (and funny) understanding of the inequities of American capitalism. Somewhere up in heaven, Sturges is smiling.

The movie was good-not-great. But who cares? It's hands down the greatest television show of all-time.

P.S. Frank Grimes' son tried to avenge his father's death in a later episode.

yes, that was the episode that pretty much made me stop watching the simpsons for a couple of years.

Why???

The Frank Grimes episode is a masterpiece.

My top three are: The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (esp. "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour"), the garbage episode wth U2, and Armin Tanzarian (the most moving moment in television history is when the lie makes Armand and Agnes happier than the truth ever could have).

Wow...those would probably be the four episodes I'd list if you asked me to point out when the show began a steep decline in quality.

THE four, huh? My four favorite episodes happen to be the EXACT four episodes that you'd list if someone (not me) asked you to point out when the show began a steep decline in quality? Those exact four episodes out of 400?

Remarkable. Nay, downright miraculous. Doncha think?

Face it, dude, your taste sucks and people who describe episodes of The Simpsons as shit like a "deep (and funny) understanding of the inequities of American capitalism" make me want to barf and never watch teh show again.

So insightful. I love you.

Why???

WHY? well, seeing as i think the frank grimes episode is fucking awful*, bringing the character back as a sort of sideshow bob for homer wasn't really an improvement.

* the "inequities of modern capitalism" point is interesting. i don't agree with it and i think for it to really stand homer would've had to return to being himself in the next episode instead of the braying jerkass he's been ever since. since that presupposes his character being drastically changed just to make a point.

I don't know why, but my 3 favorite Simpsons episodes are probably:

New Kids on the Blecch (When Bart becomes part of the boy band Party Posse)
Grift of the Magi (When Kid First Industries takes over the school and tricks the kids into creating Funzo, a Furby rip off)
Skinner's Sense of Snow (When the kids get trapped in the school during a blizzard)

glancing over the last few feet of this thread here's a top 5:

bart sells his soul (great plot, great subplot)
frank grimes(why would anyone not like this ep? extremely meta but also extremely fucking good)
pta disbands
gabbo
duff gardens

bringing the character back as a sort of sideshow bob for homer wasn't really an improvement.

Oh sorry. I was asking about why you didn't like the Frank Grimes episode which you answered anyway. Sorta:

i think for it to really stand homer would've had to return to being himself in the next episode instead of the braying jerkass he's been ever since.

But he's always been a braying jerkass. He was in the Frank Grimes episode and he was in the episode(s) before/after that. More importantly, he's a lazy, stupid braying jerkass. He's gotten ahead of Frank Grimes (and many others) in life through sheer luck. Basically, this episode is telling us that hard work does NOT get you everything in lfie and there aren't many American cultural products willing to wrestle with that reality.

I still don't know why you don't like this episode. But you're definitely not alone. It's well-hated.

Aja, I love all those episodes, esp. The Party Posse one (the greatest band since music's birth). Best line in that one is Milhouse's: "The Statue of Liberty? Where are we???"

Smile-Time Variety Hour is really funny I think but did sort of open the door for later spinoff episodes that were nowhere near as good. Similarly, Frank Grimes episode is great but sort of proto-Family Guy (a lot of people will consider this more problematic than I do, I guess)

My personal favourites have always been the following (not in order of preference):

Homer the Heretic
Last Exit to Springfield
Simpson and Delilah
You Only Move Twice
Homer Bad Man
King Size Homer
Homie the Clown
The Mysterious Voyage of Our Homer
Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment
Lemon of Troy

I've always felt season 13 was a very slight return to form but seasons 2-8 are the peak obviously.

I hate the Party Posse episode.

Aja, I love all those episodes, esp. The Party Posse one (the greatest band since music's birth). Best line in that one is Milhouse's: "The Statue of Liberty? Where are we???"

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, July 30, 2007 8:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I think the best line is the one by that crazy VJ.."And that was the add for the new Stridex Pads! (I think that's what she says...or is it Tampax??) Whoo!!...And up next we have the new video from P squared! Whoo"

Or something like that...that character had too much energy...

I hate the Party Posse episode.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Monday, July 30, 2007 4:23 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Ok...what episodes do you like???

most of them! I just don't like the Party Posse one.

ok...

I also like the one with John Waters...you???

Love it. Camp = when a clown dies.

Two Bad Neighbors (I like singing "Table 5" over "stayin alive")

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ki12mWpq8

Oh, I almost forgot about that episode!

that reminds me I really like the one where Ned opens the leftorium.

All good. There aren't many crappy ones.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ki_dEXCIDZ4&mode=related&search=

But he's always been a braying jerkass. He was in the Frank Grimes episode and he was in the episode(s) before/after that. More importantly, he's a lazy, stupid braying jerkass

No, no, no that is so not true! The writers who took over around this time apparently felt that he'd "always" been a braying jerkass, when he was actually nothing more than a well-meaning if occasionally selfish/immature goofball. Slow-witted but not downright insane. An average Joe Schlub, not the worst father/husband in town! The utter INFLATION of Homer Simpson is emblematic of that once-fine series' way-protracted decline - "Best show ever" might've been true in 1995 or even '97, but not today.

(Having said all that, I have to admit that the Grimey episode is indeed pretty funny in and of itself. But that Party Posse one was gawdawful.)

But even if all that is true (which I find debatable), I still don't see how it applies to the Frank Grimes episode.

And I'm perfectly willing to concede that my critical faculties are null and void when it comes to this show because it still makes me laugh and think to this day. Come on, that Statue of Liberty line from the Party Posse episode is fuckin' hardcore comedy.

I can't believe I'm meeting Milhouse!

Myonga OTM.

I hate the Party Posse episode.

serrrrrriously. the cognitive dissonance is killing me.

Love that this is on ILM for no good reason.

post season 8, the last half of season 12, season 13, and the first half of season 14 were ace, m8s. other than that, it's all handful of funny episodes in a pile of shit.

The one where Mr Burns decides to become charitable and throws his money around in the form of coins and one gets lodged in Lenny's skull. Also the one where Homer's car rolls down a hill: he gets thrown out the car, bounces around a bit and is thrown back in again!

the one where homer gets a gun
― ernest, Wednesday, June 6, 2001 8:00 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so glad this one was in the first few posts. saw this last night and was lmao nonstop

there's so much gold in that one. love the beatnik. zen new jersey nowhere!

That was Homer the Vigilante.

One more year and that show's been as bad as long as it's been good

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, April 3, 2006 3:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u_u

The one where Millhouse gets a girlfriend way back in S3 is nothing special plot-wise, but is crammed with incredible jokes. It has the subplot of Homer using the sleep-hypnosis tape which increases his vocabulary as well: "In the bedroom, the gourmand becomes the voluptuary!"

huh, I was thinking that was a season or two later than that, It has that balance of the sincere & grounded and the crazy that seasons 4 and 5 got perfect. I love that subplot. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satieties. :'(

the thing that still bugs me in that episode is where milhouse's girlfriend at the end goes "it's pretty nice but they won't let me oot". what the hell is oot-ing?

"Homer Goes To College" has been my fave since high school and still is.

xpost they're Canadian nuns, she's saying 'out' in an allegedly Canadian accent!

the thing that still bugs me in that episode is where milhouse's girlfriend at the end goes "it's pretty nice but they won't let me oot". what the hell is oot-ing?

― hobbes, Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:20 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

They're French-Canadian nuns and Canadian ppl pronounce "out" as "oot." The joke is that she's so indoctrinated by them that she's picking up their mannerisms

In recent times, the one where Homer blacks out and thinks he clobbered Marge was uncomfortable territory in a good way, and makes me think the show could get a fifth wind if it goes Todd Solondzylvania.

my childtime favorite is the one where homer goes to work for hank scorpio, not sure if it'd hold up now.

My childhood favorite was the teacher's strike episode. "There's very little meat in these gym mats."

k i wasn't exposed to canadians until college. disappointed the joke itself is so crappy. no shit they won't let you out, you're in a boarding school or whatever

Saw the Scorpio one relatively recently, it's still a cracker.

xpost - did you think 'oot' was an entirely different verb of which you were unaware?

ban hobbes

timmy o'toole

Hank Grimes, people. Funniest episode ever, and just a fantastic piece of satire no matter what you compare it to.

"Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Michael O'Donoghue

hank grimes?

"Homer Goes To College" has been my fave since high school and still is.

"Hello, Dean? You're a stupidhead!"
"Homer?"
"Aaaah!!"

gotta go with "Last Exit to Springfield". dental plan! lisa needs braces.

Last Exit won some, I think it was Entertainment Weekly? poll, seems like a totally fair choice.

Homer Badman is satire at its best, perhaps.

But the best? I'm going to have to say Treehouse of Horror 4, with the Shinning, Time and Punishment, and whatever the one where they eat kids is called.

Wow a Simpsons thread I haven't posted in, what are the odds.

k i wasn't exposed to canadians until college. disappointed the joke itself is so crappy. no shit they won't let you out, you're in a boarding school or whatever

WTH, way to overthink a pretty simple lol.

And yeah, the "Shinning" bit of ToH4 is also one of my fave ever eps.

"all work and no play make Homer something something"
"...go crazy?"
"Don't mind if I do! BLEEIRTYERTEUEEEGHEGH!"

WTH, way to overthink a pretty simple lol.

wth, milhouse's girlfriend is canadian all of a sudden?

oh for fu

fuck it. i'm out

There was this hilarious episode where Ralph was a Viking I think but I am still little sketchy on the details

the spring break ep where they steala car and go to the worlds fair in knoxville, tn was my favorite for a while.

I forgot about that one, that's top quality. Kind of less humor-oriented, iirc.

i was reminded of that one the other day when i saw there was a band called langdon auger

For the benefit of Hobbes:

Samantha: That's all right, Bart. I love Saint Sebastian.
It's run by a group of French-Canadian nuns. They're very nice, except they never let me oot.

... I think thats faaairly self explanatory.

(interestingly its spelt "ewt" on SNPP tho)

i remember the episode where Homer intentionally gains weight so he can work from home being really funny, but i saw it recently and was disappointed. i think just the Obese Homer in Mumu, Cape, and Hat image was the center of the lols.

http://blondehurricanewarning.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/homer_mumu1.jpg

first GIS for "mumu" btw.

"the fingers you have used to dial... are too fat. To obtain a special dialling wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now"

haw that episode had several funny bits - play doh doughnut, greased fast food joint wall kills bird, mash nymberpad for dialing wand, ten hyiyiyih... xp

ass has own congressman

definitely some great stuff there, but wasn't the level i remember it being. of course i'd probably feel that way if i went through a lot of the old Simpsons episodes that i loved. it's been a while!

GOd not for me it hasnt, I watch my dvds constantly!

/utter saddo

Bart of Darkness is a contender.

I'm such a saddo that most nights I sleep to DVD commentaries to drown out the tinnitus / wandering thoughts. I should probably find something else though, give myself a while away so I can return to them fresh in a couple of years.

hank grimes?

Whoops. I blame Signal to Noise, which has a big article on bassist Henry Grimes in the new issue.

my second favorite episode, or perhaps tied with the hank scorpio episode, from my childhood is twenty two short films about springfield. bart and milhouse squirting ketchup and mustard off the overpass, gum in lisa's hair, steamed hams, aurora borealis in skinner's kitchen, "this was the largest car I could afford"... <3

also I had no idea why I said 'childtime' upthread makes me sound like a disgusting paedo.

Yeah I love 22 short stories as well, great Tarantino pastiche :D

Also, Bart of Darkness is grebt (thats the "rear window" one, right?)

radiation man movie is a sentimental fave for me

ie the one where they're filming the movie in Springfield

radiation man

"radioACTIVE man!"
"...I shouldn't have been able to hear that"

I actually watched King Sized Homer very recently (where he gets fat) and was surprised how good it was.

I'm always surprised at how varied my taste in simpsons is from other people's, in that I reserve myself to seasons 2-6 pretty much entirely, but have been watching some season 7 episodes lately, and am surprising myself at how much I'm enjoying them.

King Sized Homer is great. "All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body."

all my simpsons dvds were lost in the fire u_u

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr1fotGQqh1qzma4ho1_400.jpg

Oh wow, how have I never noticed that!!

I remember when I was very young, watching the episode with the comet, seeing barney and nelson walk out together and thinking that Barney was Nelson's father. Of course I don't know why I inferred this, but, who knows...

^^^haha the REAL Simpson nerds saw that, inferred the same as you, and immediately remembered the Barney-as-sperm-bank-donor gag (babies belching all over town) a coupla seasons prior to that!

does Barney smoke?

smoke... what?

Didn't Nelson's dad pop out for a pack of smokes and never return?

Nelson's dad was present in season 4 at the football game in the episode with the big brothers, and in the the later "Bart Star" football episode.

There's no continuity to the existence/prescence of Nelson's dad. He's walked out and never come back, he's been in jail, he's been the soccer coach, they never stuck with a story, but meh, they never do.

I saw a later season episode where Nelson's actual dad came back. It was rubbish.

I saw a later season episode where Nelson's actual dad came back. It was rubbish.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), den 19 juni 2010 03:34 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Last Exit, followed by Bart Sells His Soul

season 3 has some killer episodes - didnt remember them being so jam-packed w/subtle callbacks that early in the shows run but they totally are - but the soapbox derby racer episode is a+ classic

nelson smoking is a+

Monorail

Another vote for Bart of Darkness (Rear Window parody). One that I always liked but have probably settled on it as a favourite in the years of not watching the show. There are so many good lines and the feeling of a hot suburban summer is well pitched, from all the childish excitement of the pool truck, to watching black & white 'Classic Krusty' because there's nothing else to do but watch television.

I also love Bart's affinity with Victorian England which crops up in a few episodes. Thinking of his play gives me actual LOLs.

"Kippers for breakfast Aunt Helga? Is it St. Swithin's day already?"

"Tis!" replied Aunt Helga

I'm goin' I'm goin'!

The "Pulp Fiction" episode with Linguo was great.

And the one where he becomes a missionary.

"I'm not NOT licking toads!"

Didn't like the missionary one at all.